A Survey of University Course Timetabling Problem: Perspectives, Trends and Opportunities

The timetabling problem is common to academic institutions such as schools, colleges or universities. It a very hard combinatorial optimisation which attracts the interest of many researchers. university course (UCTTP) difficult address due size and several challenging soft constraints. Over years, various methodologies were proposed solve UCTTP. purpose this survey paper provide most recent scientific review applied unveils classification in years based on chronology datasets used. Perspectives, trends, challenges opportunities UCTTP are also presented. observed that meta-heuristic approaches popular among This followed closely by hybrid methodologies. Hyper-heuristic able produce effective results. Another observation state-of-art literature not fully utilised real-world environment perhaps limited flexibility these